The lay of the last minstrel, a poem. With Ballads and lyrical pieces |
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... was guarded by word and by spell , Deadly to hear and deadly to tell- Jesu Maria , shield us well ! No living wight , save the Ladye alone , Had dared to cross the threshold stone . B II . The tables were drawn , it was idlesse.
... was guarded by word and by spell , Deadly to hear and deadly to tell- Jesu Maria , shield us well ! No living wight , save the Ladye alone , Had dared to cross the threshold stone . B II . The tables were drawn , it was idlesse.
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... cross streaming , To see the midnight beacon gleaming ; They watch , against Southern force and guile , Lest Scroop , or Howard , or Percy's powers , Threaten Branksome's lordly towers , From Warkworth , or Naworth , or merry Carlisle ...
... cross streaming , To see the midnight beacon gleaming ; They watch , against Southern force and guile , Lest Scroop , or Howard , or Percy's powers , Threaten Branksome's lordly towers , From Warkworth , or Naworth , or merry Carlisle ...
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... cross to Skelfhill pen , By every rill , in every glen , Merry elves their morrice pacing , To aërial minstrelsy , Emerald rings on brown heath tracing , Trip it deft and merrily . Up , and mark their nimble feet ! Up , 26 CANTO I. THE ...
... cross to Skelfhill pen , By every rill , in every glen , Merry elves their morrice pacing , To aërial minstrelsy , Emerald rings on brown heath tracing , Trip it deft and merrily . Up , and mark their nimble feet ! Up , 26 CANTO I. THE ...
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... cross ; By wily turns , by desperate bounds , Had baffled Percy's best blood - hounds ; In Eske , or Liddel , fords were none , But he would ride them , one by one ; Alike to him was time or tide , December's snow , or July's pride ...
... cross ; By wily turns , by desperate bounds , Had baffled Percy's best blood - hounds ; In Eske , or Liddel , fords were none , But he would ride them , one by one ; Alike to him was time or tide , December's snow , or July's pride ...
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... will be St Michael's night , And , though stars be dim , the moon is bright ; And the Cross , of bloody red , Will point to the grave of the mighty dead . XXIII . " What he gives thee , see thou CANTO I. 31 THE LAST MINSTREL .
... will be St Michael's night , And , though stars be dim , the moon is bright ; And the Cross , of bloody red , Will point to the grave of the mighty dead . XXIII . " What he gives thee , see thou CANTO I. 31 THE LAST MINSTREL .
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ancient arms band bard Baron Beattisons beneath betwixt blaze blood blood-hound Border Branksome Branksome Hall Branksome's Buccleuch bugle called CANTO castle Cessford chapel chief clan courser cross Cumberland dæmons Dame dead Douglas dread Duke Earl Earl of Angus Eildon Hills English Eskdale Ettricke Ettricke Forest fair on Carlisle Fawdon fight hall hand harp heard heart highnes hill horse Howard James Jedburgh king Kirkwall knight Ladye laird of Buccleuch lances lands LAST MINSTREL Liddesdale Lord Dacre Melrose Michael Scott MINSTREL moss-trooper Musgrave Naworth Castle ne'er noble Note o'er ride rode Roslin round rung sayd Scotland Scots Scottish Scottish Border shew shulde Sir William slain song spear St Clair steed stone stood sun shines fair sword Teviot's Teviotdale thee theyme theyre Thomas Musgrave thou Tinlinn tower Twas tyme Virgilius warden warriors ween wild William of Deloraine word wound